SOW System specs

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Im amazed at the number of people who have high end (i7) systems.
What the heck do you do with all that cpu power?
Video encoding is the only thing that springs to mind, I can't imagine you would see any significant difference in gaming compared to a system for half the price (I guess you might need it for multi video card/display performance?).
I recently trialled a new Lenovo D20 workstation with Xeon E5650/Quadro FX1800 (we are upgrading at work) and was disappointed to see the tiny performance boost compared with my current Athlon II X2 system.
Typically, running Solidworks, I was looking at little more than 13% cpu utilization (1/2 a core).
I guess SOW will be more optimized for multicore, but I will be waiting until well after release before thinking about what to buy to play it.